1) Navigation:
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My fault. I incorrectly enabled guiding to the first red point as I used to do for guiding on tracks. By selecting guiding to the navigation route (the small turn symbol) I got it right.
THIS IS AWESOME, Menion! You were right in what you said before the relase: I got a smile on my face when I saw what you have implemented! That turn popup window with real time distance is really great. And the guiding line that pops up when you move away from computed route is also really great.
I guess the text next to each red dot may be hard to move into a popup window since you are probably reusing the existing feature of adding points to track recording?
It would have two great benefits if it were possible to move the turn guiding text to the Turn popup window (or probably a new, not that tall popup window next to the Turn window such that it doesn't cover too much of the map area):
- if you have computed a track over e.g. 100 km distance and zoom out to get an overview of the computed track, there is so much red guiding text covering most of the map area that you do not see the track any more. And this text is only of interest as you approach the next turn, so the right place for it is in a popup window showing one turn at a time.
- this guiding text would be much easier to read if shown in a popup window with a background color. Remember - this is something you need to be able to read with a quick look on the map while driving.
The guiding text today is like "Turn right on Sunset Road 1.3 km". That is 3 items of information: How to turn, name of road, distance. You already have 2 of these (1st and 3rd) covered in your Turn popup window, so you could limit the text to only display the name of the road.
Your moving car is great! You are showing a car no matter if I select navigation for car, bike or walking. Would it be possible to show a bike/walking person if those navigation modes are selected? This is of course not important at all - just a funny thing.
One more thing: the Turn popup window disappears when the last turn is done. However, it would be useful if you kept the window and changed the turn indicator to a Goal symbol with remaining distance.
2) Guiding:
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I see. I was not aware of that. Great.
However, I see two types of guiding:
- Guiding along a computed TRACK: Here you want to be guided along the TRACK and the waypoints themselves are not of particular interest.
Here your new way of guiding and automatic jumping to next point is really great and better than it was before. No changes here.
- Guiding to a particular WAYPOINT on the track: here you really want to find that point and you want the guiding to that point even if you pass it.
May I suggest the following:
- When you tap a point on a computed track today, you get a popup window with the commands "i <track name>", "i <point>", "Guide On", etc.
-- Here "Guide On" = today's guiding along a TRACK. No changes here.
-- Tapping "i <point>" today pops up another window with 4 command/symbols: +, map, tools, navigation. Could you here add a 5th command/symbol - Guiding - just as you have today for a POI?
So when you have found that particular waypoint, you can select "Guide On" to the track again.